{"title":"Fiona McGregor","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiona McGregor’s work weaves intricate explorations of identity, memory, and the craft of storytelling. Her titles offer a reflective journey through contemporary life, blending elements of \u003cem\u003ebiography and memoir\u003c\/em\u003e with insightful observations on the arts and culture that shape our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful narratives that challenge perspectives and invite deep engagement with the personal and the universal. McGregor’s prose is both evocative and precise, making her collection a rich resource for those interested in the intersections of life, creativity, and history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-novel-idea-by-fiona-mcgregor-9781925818062","title":"A Novel Idea","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Novel Idea\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir in photo-essay form that follows Fiona McGregor's life as she writes her award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eIndelible Ink\u003c\/i\u003e. It is a tongue-in-cheek rumination on the monotony and loneliness of the novelist's daily life, and the act of endurance the writer must perform.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough an extended sequence of photographs taken on a hand-me-down camera, accompanied by terse, evocative captions, the book spans several years of labour and procrastination, elation and despair. The details of the outside world intrude as McGregor works on the novel alone in her Bondi flat, with nothing but a desk, a pin-board, a laptop and a cat, and in studio spaces in Berlin and Estonia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMcGregor's voice is wry, vulnerable, at times caustic, capturing the colloquial qualities of her fiction and the durational nature of her performance art via the ephemeral and essential thoughts that take up an author's days, weeks, and years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Novel Idea\u003c\/i\u003e is a curiosity and a delight. Composed over years, Fiona McGregor's intimate photo-essay charts writing a novel: that collision of exhilaration, tedium, despair and sheer slog. It will captivate writers and readers alike.\u003c\/b\u003e - Michelle de Kretser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiona McGregor casts out any pretence to literary mystique in a deadpan, ruthlessly honest, witty and at times surprisingly moving first-person photographic narrative that draws us in, disarms us, leaves us vulnerable to the sudden poignancy of certain observations and revelations.\u003c\/b\u003e - Blair French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798431879404,"sku":"9781925818062","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18505953482873.jpg?v=1757195601"},{"product_id":"buried-not-dead-by-fiona-mcgregor-9781925818604","title":"Buried Not Dead","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNovelist Fiona McGregor's new book, \u003cem\u003eBuried Not Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs. Some of them are famous, such as Marina Abramović and Mike Parr, while others, like Latai Taumoepeau, Lanny K, and Kathleen Mary Fallon, are important figures but less well known. In her portraits of these performers and artists and the scenes they inhabit, McGregor creates an intimate and expansive archive of a kind rarely recorded in our histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFiona McGregor has a deep and enduring involvement in the worlds she represents. She came of age as an artist during an outpouring of performative queer creativity, in a community that celebrated subversion, dissent and uninhibited partygoing. In her writing, she observes the shift from that moment to new forms of cultural repression. McGregor is a participant in her essays as well as a witness—she sees through an artist's eyes and records what she perceives with a novelist's insight. In excavating the lives of others, she reveals her own, and shows the possibilities that exist beneath the surface of our culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Compromise-averse, dangerous, this book is also a precious archive of radical art-making witnessed firsthand.’ - Maria Tumarkin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘MacGregor has a fine eye for the moment, in a text or performance, when the marvellous happens. Cutting across the boring divides between high art and low dives, \u003cem\u003eBuried Not Dead\u003c\/em\u003e is alive to what's alive.’ - McKenzie Wark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘In a world that bludgeons you into numbness \u003cem\u003eBuried Not Dead\u003c\/em\u003e will startle you back to life. 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